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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2007Do Not WAAANT!
Like in the lolcat pictures (grin). A cat (Little Boy) has stolen my pillow and obviously used his mind control powers to get me to turn off the radio, climb out of bed and get into the shower without waking up. But he didn't count on the evil abilities of a lower-thigh leg cramp to wake me up and attempt to drop me to the floor. No problem. At work, I have been "tasked" to get "knowledge transfer" from several other "resources". All of whom are out of the office until Tuesday of next week. Okay, fairly normal. New time management system Must. Be. Implemented. Today. Also delete the last two weeks from the old system and reenter them on the new system. This is three timesheet applications I have to fill out every week: one for the client. One for the contracting company that hired me. One for the contracting company that I work for. I need a bigger space for "Administrative tasks - time sheets". I'm getting used to this too. I get home EARLY. I plan to spend some time studying and working on the lab that I didn't finish at lunch, then running through the prep test several times before the weekly test tomorrow. So that maybe I can get a little ahead on the last week of the first course for my MCSD. Wife meets me at the door. Tells me that when she opens the lid to the chest freezer, a lot of water pours out. Knowing this is probably not a good thing (so THAT is the weird noise we heard last night?), she stayed out of the freezer. I open lid and see lots of defrosting, but feel lots of good, good cold yet. Time to go to freezer store, but I know it is too late to get same day delivery. I drive a Ford Escort. It is a small car, with a little aileron attached to the trunk. I buy some tie-down straps, and argue with the warehouse crew that I *will* take full responsibility for doing something stupid like transporting an upright freezer on the back of my car. At rush hour. On the busiest street in Arlington. In the rain. Flashers on, and 20 miles per hour, for about five miles. Traffic was polite and nobody honked, shot me the finger or pointed loaded weapons at me. Drag new freezer into house. Rip cardboard off freezer. Try to avoid stepping on five cats who both wanted to help and wanted to run outside. Manage to misalign door on hinges so that door tries to pop back open, and refuses to close. Get bigger hammer and fix door (mostly). Move freezers around. Transfer food from old freezer to new freezer. Drag old freezer out to dumpster. Ha! I am *not* going to try and lift the chest freezer into the dumpster. Oh yeah, I grumbled and growled a lot about how I had *planned* to make use of being home early to *get something done*. Made wife and cats all nervous. Apologized to wife and cats. Spent way too much money that I didn't want to spend. At least not on a new freezer... The cats LOVE their new toy. Hugs and Purrs, Mark -- Proof of Sanity Forged Upon Request > Like in the lolcat pictures (grin). > [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > Hugs and Purrs, > Mark Deepest sympathy, but glad you hung on to the end. I lost a freezer fll of food once when the power was out for several days. Glad your food survived. dayus. (((((((Mark, wife and cats)))))))) Things have to start going better now.  SignatureJoy Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. --Nathaniel Hawthorne > Like in the lolcat pictures (grin). > [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] > -- > Proof of Sanity Forged Upon Request > Like in the lolcat pictures (grin). <snip> LOL! What was it the cat said about "mice and men" and their plans? SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > At work, I have been "tasked" to get "knowledge transfer" from several > other "resources". Corporatespeak is its own weird language. > This is three timesheet applications I have to fill out every > week: one for the client. One for the contracting company that hired > me. One for the contracting company that I work for. I need a bigger > space for "Administrative tasks - time sheets". LOL. But you are probably getting paid pretty well for those admin tasks! > The cats LOVE their new toy. The box? (Like I have to ask.) Joyce > Time to go to freezer store, but I know it is too late to get same day > delivery... > > Drag new freezer into house. Rip cardboard off freezer... > > Move freezers around. Transfer food from old freezer to new freezer... You do know that you're supposed to let a new freezer stand at a new location for 24 hours before switching it on, don't you? I hope it works OK if you didn't... SignatureMatSav >You do know that you're supposed to let a new freezer stand at a new >location for 24 hours before switching it on, don't you? I hope it works >OK if you didn't... Nope, never heard that. Why? So far, the explosions have been minimal and the smoke has been caught by the a/c filter (big grin). Hugs and Purrs, Mark SignatureProof of Sanity Forged Upon Request Mark Edwards kirjoitti: >> You do know that you're supposed to let a new freezer stand at a new >> location for 24 hours before switching it on, don't you? I hope it works [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Hugs and Purrs, > Mark Haven't heard that one should stand for 24 hrs, but for 2-3 hrs, yes, especially if the freezer was transported other than in an upright position. It is supposed to allow the cooling fluids to flow where they should be before the freezer is switched on. SignatureChristine in Laitila, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 > Haven't heard that one should stand for 24 hrs, but for 2-3 hrs, yes, > especially if the freezer was transported other than in an upright > position. Hate to telll Mark this but when we got our giant fridge/freezer we were told it had to stand for 24 hours to allow the fluids inside to settle before switching it on. Still as long as his A/C can handle the smoke Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> You do know that you're supposed to let a new freezer stand at a new >> location for 24 hours before switching it on, don't you? I hope it works [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Hugs and Purrs, > Mark I think (as Christina pointed out) it only really matters for appliances with cooling devices that have been stored in an other-than-operating position, in which case the cooling fluids have settled improperly. If your freezer was stored, transported and delivered in the upright position, it shouldn't matter. Ignore the explosions... they're just part of its normal operation, apparently. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh Ketzl's Dad kirjoitti: >>> You do know that you're supposed to let a new freezer stand at a new >>> location for 24 hours before switching it on, don't you? I hope it works [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Ignore the explosions... they're just part of its normal operation, > apparently. We Christinas and Christines are picky about our names. I'm Christine and Tweed's Christina... :) SignatureChristine in Laitila, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 > Ketzl's Dad kirjoitti: >> [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > We Christinas and Christines are picky about our names. I'm Christine > and Tweed's Christina... :) My humble apologies... I checked that *after* I hit send. <doy!> SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh Ketzl's Dad kirjoitti: >> Ketzl's Dad kirjoitti: >>> I think (as Christina pointed out) it only really matters for appliances [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > My humble apologies... I checked that *after* I hit send. <doy!> Apology accepted. :) SignatureChristine in Laitila, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 > My humble apologies... I checked that *after* I hit send. <doy!> "Doy"! I haven't heard that since high school. I thought it was a regional thing (I'm from Boston), but perhaps not. It was an extremely popular word, meaning both "duh" and "what a dork", referring to another person. Kids who enjoyed using this word (I wasn't one of them, btw) created quite an uproar in Spanish classes. As a friend of mine once said, "What an abrogation of the Spanish language." :) Joyce > > My humble apologies... I checked that *after* I hit send. <doy!> > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Joyce Well, <DOY!> I'm from Boston. DAW-chster to be exact. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh >>> My humble apologies... I checked that *after* I hit send. <doy!> >> "Doy"! I haven't heard that since high school. I thought it was a >> regional thing (I'm from Boston) > Well, <DOY!> I'm from Boston. DAW-chster to be exact. Whaddya know!! I thought you were from Noo Yawk. (Warning: regional names coming up.) I was born in Boston, lived in southeast Massachusetts near Rhode Island until 8th grade, then went to high school in Canton. I graduated in 1972. Moved to Mission Hill in my early 20s and lived there almost 8 years. Went to UMass Boston (Hah-ba Campus in Dawchesta). Then moved to Malden in my 30s and lived there until 1992, when I moved to the Bay Area. And there is the briefest life story I've ever told. :) Joyce > > On Sat, 26 May 2007 18:29:11 -0400, jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Joyce My whole life -- half of it -- is flashing before my eyes. Bawn in Dawchestah, moved to Nootonville at age 5 (I took my whole family with me) grew up (Yah! Right!) there, then moved back to Dawchester in the 80s, then to NYC in 90. Cousins in Dedham; good friend's mom in Canton; worked in Mission Hill; drove past UMass Boston a billion times; lived in Malden for a coupla ye-ahs, before moving back to Dot Ave. and Jones Hill. And I'm only 11! Oh, my ex-in-laws live in Rhode Island, Watch Hill. I spent many a summer weekend there. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > Bawn in Dawchestah, moved to Nootonville at age 5 (I took my whole family > with me) grew up (Yah! Right!) there, then moved back to Dawchester in the > 80s, then to NYC in 90. The Boston ---> New York trajectory seems unusual to me. I had so many friends who had grown up in NY or NJ, came to Boston for school and never left. I was almost embarrassed to be a native. > Cousins in Dedham; good friend's mom in Canton; worked in Mission Hill Where'd you work? What's there besides hospitals? :) I worked at Dana Farber (then called Sidney Farber) for a year - it was great, I could walk to work. In the winter I would cut through Brigham & Women's ER (aka the Peter Bent - a condition for which you would certainly want to visit the ER), which connected to a maze of hallways through Children's Hospital and on to the Farber - didn't have to outside at all, except for the walk down the Hill. > lived in Malden for a coupla ye-ahs, Oh, where? I lived in Oak Grove (right by the T station) for about 3 years, and then moved to Hancock St, which is near Main St. > And I'm only 11! Eleven what? Jupiter years? :) > Oh, my ex-in-laws live in Rhode Island, Watch Hill. I spent many a summer > weekend there. I don't know where that is. We hardly ever went to Rhode Island, even though we were maybe 2 miles from Pawtucket. I hear it's all gone yuppie now. Joyce > > Bawn in Dawchestah, moved to Nootonville at age 5 (I took my whole family > > with me) grew up (Yah! Right!) there, then moved back to Dawchester in the > > 80s, then to NYC in 90. > > The Boston ---> New York trajectory seems unusual to me. I had so many > friends who had grown up in NY or NJ, came to Boston for school and > never left. I was almost embarrassed to be a native. Having lived there up to the age of 45, I kind of wore it out. I was working at Beth Israel Hospital (15 years there; Assistant Admitting Director, then MIS Manager for the Development Department) when I got a job offer I literally couldn't refuse at Mt. Sinai in NYC. > > Cousins in Dedham; good friend's mom in Canton; worked in Mission Hill > > Where'd you work? What's there besides hospitals? :) That's it: BIH, Children's, St. Margaret's In Dot (whadda mistake) then back to BI. Did some consulting for HCHP Hospital right on Mission Hill. > I worked at Dana Farber (then called Sidney Farber) for a year - it was > great, I could walk to work. In the winter I would cut through Brigham & > Women's ER (aka the Peter Bent - a condition for which you would certainly > want to visit the ER), which connected to a maze of hallways through > Children's Hospital and on to the Farber - didn't have to outside at all, > except for the walk down the Hill. I know the Farber, of course; good friend was Admitting Director there, and all the ways to get around the medical center without going outside. And of course I know the old Boston joke: -- TAXI! Take me to the hospital! -- Peter Bent? -- No, just a little sore. > > lived in Malden for a coupla ye-ahs, > > Oh, where? I lived in Oak Grove (right by the T station) for about 3 > years, and then moved to Hancock St, which is near Main St. oooEEEEEoooooo! I lived on Wallace St., on the hill just above the Oak Grove Station. Hey! Did you work for me at Beth Israel? I had someone named Joyce in my department !!? > > And I'm only 11! > Eleven what? Jupiter years? :) No, in fact, Mercury years. 8-P > > Oh, my ex-in-laws live in Rhode Island, Watch Hill. I spent many a summer > > weekend there. > > I don't know where that is. We hardly ever went to Rhode Island, even > though we were maybe 2 miles from Pawtucket. I hear it's all gone yuppie > now. Watch Hill is the westernmost point of RI, a peninsula right on the coast, actually south of eastern Connecticut. Yuppie it isn't; it's old New England money. (Which I'm not. I'm not any kind of money. I have more "ethereal" riches. :-) Watch Hill rivals Newport -- Oh, what am I saying? Those "newcomers" in Newport with their ostentatious "cottages"... dey ain't got no claaass. Providence has really come up in the world. Not so with Pawtucket. Can't beat NYC, though. I can't imagine living anywhere else now. I never felt as safe, stimulated or fulfilled anyplace else. And no car! And even better: NO CAR INSURANCE. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > -- TAXI! Take me to the hospital! > -- Peter Bent? > -- No, just a little sore. In "The World According to Garp" the joke went something like: - Taxi! Take me to the hospital! - The Peter Bent? - Bent? I think she broke it off!! > Hey! Did you work for me at Beth Israel? I had someone named Joyce in my > department !!? No, never worked there. I did have eye surgery there, but I'm sure it was before your time: I was 3. :) > Providence has really come up in the world. Not so with Pawtucket. Have demographics changed in Pawtucket? When I was growing up it was mostly Portuguese. I imagine it must be a lot more diverse now. (But how would you know, right? You've been gone from there 17 years!) > Can't beat NYC, though. I can't imagine living anywhere else now. I never > felt as safe, stimulated or fulfilled anyplace else. That's kind of how I feel about the Bay Area. OK, maybe not "safe". But definitely stimulated and fulfilled. More my kinda people out here. > And no car! And even better: NO CAR INSURANCE. That's definitely not the case around here! :-/ Joyce \(snip) >Can't beat NYC, though. I can't imagine living anywhere else now. I never >felt as safe, stimulated or fulfilled anyplace else. And no car! And even >better: NO CAR INSURANCE. Hey, are you that yuppie scum that's sending real estate everywhere through the roof, and chasing old-timers like me and my family out of our homes? :P Seriously, this is my home, but if I didn't have my house, I would not be able to live here. There's getting to be no part of the city you can live on a middle-class income anymore. We would like to give up the house, but we know we can't afford anything else. But everything else you say is true. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > \(snip) >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > through the roof, and chasing old-timers like me and my family out of > our homes? :P No, I'm a different kind of scum: the kind that has a rent-stabilized apartment in a wonderful, full-service Rudin in fashionable Murray Hill that I won't vacate while I'm still breathing. (For the first month I lived here -- been in this place 12 years -- I kept waiting for a knock on my door: "Hey, you! We're the apartment police. You can't live here! You're not classy enough. We're taking you out, now!") I'm only a short walk to Bide-A-Wee, where Ketzl came from, and I wander over there several times a month to visit the caged ones. > Seriously, this is my home, but if I didn't have my house, I would not > be able to live here. There's getting to be no part of the city you > can live on a middle-class income anymore. We would like to give up > the house, but we know we can't afford anything else. Oh, there are lots of great five-floor-walkup studio apartments that you could probably afford. Ok, I admit there is ONE thing I hate about this city: the damn real estate market. How is it that it's dying everywhere but here?? The other day I actually heard myself saying "Oh, her [one bedroom] apartment wasn't expensive; it was only a million and a half." And then I felt sick. > But everything else you say is true. ;) > > Theresa > Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > > Make Levees, Not War SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh >> \(snip) >>> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >actually heard myself saying "Oh, her [one bedroom] apartment wasn't >expensive; it was only a million and a half." And then I felt sick. Well, because lots of people want to live here, and it's not a big place. Like that? My brother is an economist. ;) I feel that way all the time. I was happy living in a-- well, a neighborhood, not some kind of happening place. It was pleasant, safe, affordable and home. Lots of old folks, lots of immigrants. Not close to Manhattan like Carroll Gardens. Not pretty like Park Slope. Not hip like Billburg. No nightlife. Now I'm up to my tuchus in the aforementioned yuppie scum, every square inch bigger than a postage stamp has co-ops going up, and I can't afford a haircut or a cup of coffee anymore. :( I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I'm taking the subway home, and young girls get on at West 4th, dressed to party and ask if the train goes to Park Slope. Jeez Louise! And Park Slope now seems to go up past Third Avenue and over the Canal on one side, and all the way down to Sheepshead Bay on the other. I cringe when I talk to someone young who gets all bright and perky when they hear I live in Brooklyn. "No," I tell them, "I'm not from *that* Brooklyn. I'm from OLD FARTY BORING BROOKLYN." :P Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > I cringe when I talk to someone young who gets all bright and perky > when they hear I live in Brooklyn. "No," I tell them, "I'm not from > *that* Brooklyn. I'm from OLD FARTY BORING BROOKLYN." :P I'm glad that Murray Hill has remained "out of the trend loop", despite its historic district and its ideal location hidden just under Midtown's right calf. The (false) reputation that there's no good place to eat or drink (read: Get drunk with the office-mates after work every Thursday) is a good thing... even so, it's beginning to yuppify, "thanks" to NY Times articles that keep telling everyone that Murray Hill is one of the best values for apartments. SHUDDUP AWREDDY. Repeat after me: OLD FARTY BORING MURRAY HILL! SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh >> > On Sat, 26 May 2007 18:29:11 -0400, jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >Oh, my ex-in-laws live in Rhode Island, Watch Hill. I spent many a summer >weekend there. Drinking frapps? ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War >> Oh, my ex-in-laws live in Rhode Island, Watch Hill. I spent many a summer >> weekend there. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Make Levees, Not War No, frappes (note the "e") are from Boston area. In Rhode Island it's a "cabinet". Don't ask. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh The concern is more the lubricating oil. Most freezers don't have enough refrigerant in them to make much difference. SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . : I think (as Christina pointed out) it only really matters for appliances with : cooling devices that have been stored in an other-than-operating position, in [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] : Ignore the explosions... they're just part of its normal operation, : apparently. What a rubbish day, Mark! Still at least nothing foodwise got wasted- I've also lost a load of food when a freezer broke down Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > Like in the lolcat pictures (grin). > [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] > -- > Proof of Sanity Forged Upon Request Ouch! I hope a whole bunch of DO WANTs head your way ASAP! Donna Did someone say Giant Cardboard Box? We'll be right there to check it out! Captain and Stanley >Did someone say Giant Cardboard Box? We'll be right there to check it >out! >Captain and Stanley Giant soaking wet carboard box that is dripping water on helpful cats (grin). Hugs and Purrs, Mark SignatureProof of Sanity Forged Upon Request >Like in the lolcat pictures (grin). > [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] > >The cats LOVE their new toy. And now you can all has cheezburger. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War |
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